TIMER_DELETE(2) BSD System Calls Manual TIMER_DELETE(2)NAMEtimer_delete — delete a per-process timer (REALTIME)
LIBRARY
POSIX Real-time Library (librt, -lrt)
SYNOPSIS
#include <time.h>
int
timer_delete(timer_t timerid);
DESCRIPTION
The timer_delete() system call deletes the specified timer, timerid, pre‐
viously created by the timer_create(2) system call. If the timer is
armed when timer_delete() is called, the behavior is as if the timer is
automatically disarmed before removal. Pending signals for the deleted
timer are cleared.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The timer_delete() system call will fail if:
[EINVAL] The timer ID specified by timerid is not a valid timer
ID.
SEE ALSOtimer_create(2)STANDARDS
The timer_delete() system call conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2004
(“POSIX.1”)
HISTORY
Support for POSIX per-process timer first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.
BSD September 11, 2000 BSD